Measures and Trends ; US and USSR Strategic Force Effectiveness
Alexandria, VA: Santa Fe Corporation, 1978. Draft. Spiral bound. [2], 105, A-5, [1], B-1, [1] pages. Footnotes. Table. Figures. List of Measures. Glossary of Terms. Appendix A was a list of the then current Strategic Weapon Systems. Appendix B is a Bibliography. Cover has some war and soiling. Some page soiling. Norman Polmar is a prominent author specializing in the naval, aviation, and intelligence areas. He has led major projects for the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Navy, and foreign governments. His professional expertise has served three Secretaries of the U.S. Navy and two Chiefs of Naval Operations. He is credited with 50 published books, including eight previous editions of Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet and four editions of Guide to the Soviet Navy. Polmar writes a column for Proceedings and was editor of the United States and several other sections of the annual publications of Jane's Fighting Ships. In 2019, the Naval Historical Foundation awarded Polmar the Commodore Dudley W. Knox Naval History Lifetime Achievement Award. This is an early collaborative work by Norman Polmar, not found in the standard references of his works! It is an example of his early career strategic analysis thinking and assessment. It is not clear if this draft was ever finalized--this may be a unique surviving draft copy. More